Explanation of the Lord's Prayer7

11. "Our Lord Himself made use of this petition when on the eve of His passion He prayed to God His Father for the salvation of all mankind. He said, 'I pray that Thou keep them from evil' (John, xvii. 15). In this form of prayer He, as it were, summarized the force and efficacy of the other petitions; and He delivered it by way of precept and confirmed it by example" ("Roman Catechism," "loc. cit.," Chapter XVI, 1). 2. II Tim., iii. 12. 3. Apoc., iii. 8. 4. Job, v. 19. 5. Apoc., vii. 16. 6. II Cor., i. 8. 7. "Ibid.," vii. 6. 8. Ps. xciii. 19. 9. Tob., iii. 22. 10. II Cor., iv. 17. 11. Rom., v. 3. 12. Tob., iii. 13. 13. Prov., xix. 11. 14. Matt., v. 9 15. 'The word 'Amen' which brings the Lord's Prayer to a close contains, as it were, the germs of many of those thoughts and considerations which we have just treated Indeed, so frequent was this Hebrew word in the mouth of Our Lord that it pleased the Holy. Spirit to have it retained in the Church of God. The meaning of it may be said to be: 'Know that thy prayers are heard.' It has the force of a response, as if God answers the prayer of the suppliant and graciously dismisses him after He has kindly heard his prayers" ("Roman Catechism," "loc. cit.," Chapter xvii. 4). 16. Matt., vi. 33. 17. Job, xxxv. 6, 7.